British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reinstated the 2030 ban on the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars, after the previous government relaxed it to 2035. This follows a government review of the current Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate. The ZEV mandate is a policy tool requiring car … Read more
Google is the subject of a new class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom. The plaintiff is seeking up to £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in damages. The case claims that Google abused its dominance in the online search ad market. The legal action was filed on Wednesday in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal and alleges … Read more
Smartphone buyers are increasingly looking to “renewed” phones for excellent value and Amazon’s renewed program is leading the way. One product is currently very popular on the leading marketplace: the renewed iPhone 13. This phone has become Amazon’s #1 best-seller in the entire smartphone category, even beating out some brand-new phones. It’s no wonder as … Read more
Australian company Collins Foods announced on Monday that it will either close or sell all Taco Bell stores in the country. In a message to investors, the company, which also runs many KFC outlets across Australia, said it has decided to stop running the Taco Bell business. If they can’t find a buyer within a … Read more
A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at an Albuquerque Tesla showroom and one at the New Mexico Republican Party’s office—according to a Monday press release from the Department of Justice. Jamison Wagner, 40, was charged with allegedly setting fire to a building or vehicle used in … Read more
Social media juggernaut Meta stands trial on Monday facing serious US government allegations that it abused its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors. By moving forward, the trial in a Washington federal court dashes the hopes of Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg that the return of Donald Trump to the … Read more
For the two men at the forefront of a trade war that has begun to rupture ties between the world’s biggest economies, the question has become who will blink first. On one side is President Trump, who unleashed a disruptive plan to transform the modern global trading system with tariffs — only to back down … Read more
The U.S. shale industry is being hit by the crash in oil prices, which have slumped since President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement last week. Despite the strong relief rally on Wednesday, following President Trump’s 90-day pause of tariff hikes on most countries except China, the U.S. benchmark oil price … Read more
In an iconic scene from the 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report, on-the-run Agent John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise, struggles to walk through a mall as he’s targeted by a multitude of personalized ads from the likes of Lexus, Guinness and American Express, everytime hidden detectors identify his eyes. It was clearly meant as a … Read more
In 1977, two probes launched less than a month apart on a mission to the great beyond. The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies outside the vast bubble that surrounds our solar system, beyond the influence of our host star. Voyager 1 reached the beginning … Read more